Charter Cable is Associated With and Known as:
Cable TV service is one of the offerings of Charter and is featured under its Charter Spectrum TV label. It has the listing of over 200 HD channels and delivers Video on Demand content to its subscribers. The Cable TV services by Charter have been arranged into many packages: Select, Silver and Gold. Apart from cable connection, it allows the users to watch its channel listings on their Smartphone by downloading apps. Charter provides a DVR to record live programmes with navigation features like Stop, pause and rewind.
Company Profile
Charter Communications Incorporation is a
Connecticut based company providing voice, data and TV services. Counted among one of the largest cable operators in the USA, it has the base of over
27.6 million subscribers in 29 states. The company has the portfolio of services like Cable TV, HDTV, Broadband, and Digital telephone. Charter Communications is listed on
Nasdaq under the ticker symbol, CHTR and has the strength of over 21,000 employees. Liberty Media is the largest stake holder in its ownership with 25.65 percent of shares.
History and Expansion
Charter Communications was incorporated in
1993 by Barry Babcock, Jerald
Kent and Howard Wood after resigning from Cencom Cable Television. In 1997, it went into partnership with
Earthlink to deploy internet access services in California. The
Next year saw an acquisition of Marcus Cable by Charter Communications. In 1999, the company went public on NASDAQ after earning the customer base of over 3.9 million customers. The company purchased many cable systems to be one of of the largest cable operators in the USA.